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by sneak 725 days ago
Human flight, resurrection (cardiopulmonary resuscitation machines), doubling human lifespans, instantaneous long distance communication, all of these things are simply pipe dreams.
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Setting foot on the moon, splitting the atom and transmuting elements, curing incurable diseases like genetic blindness and spinal atrophy...

> doubling human lifespans

This is partly a statistical effect of greatly reducing infant mortality (which used to be as bad as 50%) but even that is mind-blowing.

> resurrection (cardiopulmonary resuscitation machines)

Get back to me when that can ressurect me after I've been dead for a week or so.

We have people walking around for weeks with no heartbeat.

They're tied to a machine, sure, but that machine itself is a miracle compared to any foundational religious textbook including those as recent as Doreen Valiente and Gerald Gardner with Wicca.

But had those people been lying around with no heartbeat for a week or three before they were hooked up to the machine? If they had, then yes, that would actually be resurrection. But what you're describing doesn't sound like it.